Yanina Manolova is a visual journalist. A native of Bulgaria, she received her BFA in education and minor in speech pathology at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". In 2000 she moved to the United States and in 2010 she earned MA in photography at Ohio University's School of Visual Communication.

She has worked on different projects in Africa, Latin America, Europe and USA.

Her work has been featured in the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), USA Today, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and many others.

Her photos appeared at numerous exhibits and she has won several international awards and various nominations including in the NPPA: Best of Photojournalism, Alexia Foundation for World Peace, Northern Short Course in Photojournalism, Southern Short Course in News Photography, NPPA: Women In Photojournalism and many others.

Since 2008 Yanina has been documenting the issues of recovery from substance abuse and domestic violence among Appalachian women and the consequences on their children.

All photographs and videos appearing on this web site are under the protection of The United States and international copyright laws. No photograph or video may be reproduced, copied, stored, manipulated or used whole or in part of a derivative work, without the written permission of Yanina Manolova. A derivative work is the use of Yanina Manolova's work as the basis for, or part of another photographic concept or illustration or another video montage and is in violation of copyright.